Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-02
NEWS NUGGETS.
Extracted from the Mine of Mis-.
cellaneons Matters, on our
Claim, and Assayed for
our Delivers after
Knowledge.
Notice the Output.

The "Colored Citizen" of Cincinnati,
has not turned up it's toes"
Bishop Payne is writing book en-
titled "Diyine Type of Womanhood."
Mr.. John Brown, colored, has been
appointed letter carrier in Newark, N. j.
Miss Lizzie Brown, colored, is steno-
Igrapher in a Law office of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
The white and colored BARRIERS of St.
Louis, Mo-, have formed protective
union.
Mr.. J. W. E. Thomas, colored, has
been nominated by the Republicans of
Chicago, as South Town Clerk.
Hon. j. Milton Turner has sued Chas.
starkes, of St.. Louis, Mo-, for $4,000
damages, for burning him in effigy.
Miss Harriet Louise Smith, colored, is
the head of the Department of Drawing
and Penmanship in Livingston College
of Boston, Mass.
The Coiored Lone Star State Fair AS
ISOLATION has been organized at Fort
Worth, Tex. They propose to give
State fair this fall.
The Johnson Brothers Colored Con-
cert Co., re-organized in Winona, MINI.
IN March and have made successful
tOur tfrOuoh WISCONSIN,
Jacksonville, Fla, has seven colored
men who are worth 100000 each, thir.
teen who are worth $4,000, AMI twice
that number who are worth $1,000.
Mr.. Newton Hamilton for constable,
and Rev. W. Wright for the Board of
Education, are among the candidates
tor the coming election in Lawrence,
Kan. @..~
Mrs. Ella Taylor and Jake Finkleborg.
both colored, of Memphis, Tenn, have
filed suits against the Memphis City
Railroad Co., for $4,000 damages each
for injuries received.
Mr.. J. M. Nimbulu, native of Natal
South Africa, graduated from the
Chicago Medical College this week. He
will return to his native country to
practice his profession.
Mrs. Sarah Schefer, the colored
woman, who was purchased from her
owner by Plymouth Church at Mr..
Beecher's suggestion in 1860, and given
her freedom, is still living at Peekskill,
N. Y, where she has little place, and
sells chickens and eggs for living.
Rev. j. A. Cole, of Africa, in an adj
dress before the convention of churches
and christians at Chicago, Thursday,
said ne believed that most of the evils
the colored people were suffering from.
were attributable to Masonry and Sc.
cret societies. He was central figure
in the convention.
The statement which is going the
rounds of the colored press, that Prof. G.
+. Adams, now teaching German in
washington, .. G.. was recently stricken
with paralysis, is unfounded. It oriyi-
mated from the fact that he had slight
attack OF vertigo, from which he re-
covered in day or two.
The Robert Brown Elliot School of
Technology was Incorporated in Birm-
lngham, Ala, last week, by A. L. Scott,
Samuel Roebuck, w. r. Pettiford. Geo.
Turner, j. H. Thompson, Sandy Goodloe
u. A.Williams, A. T. Walker, R. CO.
benjamin and ]. T. Jones. This is the
first school of the kind for colored
people in the United States.
Great excitement exists among the
colored people and ignorant whites
along the base of the Kenesaw Mountain
in Cobb and Gordon counties, Georgia
A colored girl, who claims to hold con-
verse with the angels, predicts the end
OF the world preceded by earthquakes,
whirlwinds and fire, on the first satur-
day IN December. As if to confirm her
prophecy, Greek cross, evidently of
rainbow origin, has appeared several
times over the Kenesaw Mountain. and
after hanging for half an hour. SLOWLY
dissolved.